negative resistance

noun

1. a characteristic of certain electronic components in which an increase in the applied voltage increases the resistance, producing a proportional decrease in current

Example Sentences

The LoveArmy casts itself as a more hopeful and less negative resistance group whose stances include support for net neutrality and opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline and the Clean Power Plan.

From Washington Times

“There’s never been a positive social change that hasn’t been met with a tremendous amount of negative resistance, and that resistance always starts with the majority,” White told me.

From The Guardian

You have such a terrible power of negative resistance against poor, strong-willed me.

From Project Gutenberg

The short-period comet has driven them to a resisting medium, which, while according to Encke’s hypothesis of increasing density around the sun, it explains the anomalies of one periodical comet, requires a different law of density for another, and a negative resistance for a third.

From Project Gutenberg

At the blue pole, the lightness-effect springs from the resistant medium through which we gaze, a medium under the influence of gravity, while the darkness is provided by the anti-gravity quality of cosmic space, which as a 'negative' resistance exercises a suction on the eye's inner light.

From Project Gutenberg